Lecture 21: “Cut Your Hair” - Pavement: Pavement, an indie rock band from Stockton, California (formed in 1989), is one of those groups with a fiercely dedicated fan base, yet few Billboard Top 40 hits to speak of. This particular song, “Cut Your Hair,” a biting commentary on conformity in the music business, is their most well known tune – the closest thing they had to an actual “hit” – climbing in the spring of 1994 into the Top 10 of Billboard’s U.S. Hot Modern Rock Tracks. Today, Pavement is one of the most enduring and timeless of the alternative rock bands from the ‘90s. They’re enjoying a revival of sorts among younger listeners who either weren’t around or were too young to enjoy their original run of five studio albums, released between 1992 and 1999.